From Soft Bomb to Silver Bullets
December 24, 2015
Martin Phillipps on The Chills’ long-awaited new album, Silver Bullets.
Archives by Year » 2015
Catching up with Lord Echo
December 23, 2015
Mike Fabulous, aka Lord Echo, on collaborating with fellow DJ Julien Dyne on LORD JULIEN, his follow-up to 2013’s Curiosities, and the Sydney Festival.
The Year in Review:
The Best of Auckland Theatre in 2015
December 22, 2015
Favourite plays and performances, plus thoughts and observations on theatre in 2015 and beyond.
The Year in Review:
The Best of Film in 2015, Part 4
December 21, 2015
Ten films to write home about in 2015, plus ten discoveries and revelations.
The Year in Review: The Best of Film (and Music) in 2015, Part 3
December 17, 2015
In praise of the New Zealand International Film Festival, plus the future of live music in Wellington.
The Year in Review: The Best of Film (and TV) in 2015, Part 2
December 16, 2015
Ten personal bests in film, plus favourite television series and repertory screenings in 2015.
The Year in Review:
The Best of Film in 2015, Part 1
December 15, 2015
The year in cinema releases, festival highlights, and moments from films that history might otherwise forget.
Houses and Homes:
Briar March on A Place to Call Home
December 14, 2015
Filmmaker Briar March talks about the creative and collaborative process behind her three-year project to document opposing housing projects in Glen Innes and Northland.
After Shakespeare:
Tim Crouch on I, Peaseblossom
December 4, 2015
For the first time in New Zealand, Tim Crouch will present his alternate take on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream to Auckland theatregoers.
“I lost about 700kg worth of friends”
December 3, 2015
Actor Brendan Cowell on tackling Australia’s alcohol culture in his feature film directorial debut, Ruben Guthrie.
Tiny Deaths
November 27, 2015
Uther Dean and Sam Brooks bring an evening of dark love stories to the Basement Theatre.
The Best of Youth
November 25, 2015
Talking Paolo Sorrentino, John Huston, and BFI London Film Festival highlights with film culture tsar Adrian Wootton.
The Lumière Reader presents
“Out of the Mist”
November 11, 2015
Two decades on from Cinema of Unease, Tim Wong’s ambitious essay film contemplates the prevailing image of a national cinema while privileging some of the images and image-makers displaced by the popular view of filmmaking in New Zealand.
Beyond Freaks: KooKoo the Birdgirl
November 9, 2015
An interview with performer Sarah Houbolt, whose new show explores the dark history of circus through the mysterious life of character from Tod Browning’s Freaks.
Hudson and Halls Live!; Guys and Dolls; The Last Man on Earth (is Trapped in a Supermarket)
November 9, 2015
Silo Theatre revive a famous Kiwi cooking show; Auckland Theatre Company tackle a classic Broadway musical; theatremaker Ben Anderson delivers a character study of existential crisis.
Crushing Riffs, Climbing Mountains: TRIUMPHS
November 2, 2015
Mat Anderson and John Bollen of two-piece Dunedin heavy band TRIUMPHS on making music, channeling Sir Edmund Hillary, and what they listen to on the road.
“Let this be the beginning now”: A Conversation with Ramin Bahrani
October 28, 2015
The director of 99 Homes on his film’s moral tightrope, New Zealand’s current housing bubble, and the trouble with John Key.
Understanding The Lesson:
An Interview with Matt Baker
October 27, 2015
A conversation about staging Eugene Ionesco’s “Theatre of the Absurd.”
A Slut for Beauty:
An Interview with Sarah Jane Barnett
October 22, 2015
Inside Sarah Jane Barnett’s remarkable new book of poems, WORK.
My Own Darling
October 21, 2015
Auckland Theatre Company presents a new work for the stage by poet Grace Taylor.